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I remember back in the 1990's, you could rent new release movies on TV in a nice hotel room and we could also do the same on Primestar and Direct TV. But we still had video stores. Netflix was founded in 1997.

Then I remember when we got Dish Network around 2004, we could now record our shows onto the system than on tape but you could only record one at a time and it had to e on live TV to record and you couldn't watch another channel.

I remember when I was with my ex boyfriend, he told me how you could soon just decide what TV show to watch without waiting for it to be on and you could just pick any movie to watch without renting it or waiting for it to be on TV. And then he told me it had already been invented so I said 'But it doesn't even exist" and he said "I know, I just invented it and now someone has to make it." Few years later this feature happens because I discovered from my Husband we could do this on our Dish Network about a couple years later called On Demand. Then I discovered in my house a few years ago you could rent movies on cable too and its not with new releases.

Blockbuster also started to do online rentals and you just return the disk to their warehouse like you do with Netflix. Plus there is Gamefly where you can rent games and now they do movies too. Blockbuster also did online game rentals.

I don't think it was just Netflix that killed the video stores, there is Youtube, and Google Play, Amazon video, even cable and satellite networks have movie rentals now and Gamefly and Redbox. All these services have movie rentals. All these killed the video stores. I am even surprised some stuff out there still exists like CDs since you can now buy songs online and download them digital and put them on your phone. Why need CDs? Plus local radio stations, we have satellite radio now. Physical games, you can buy them digital on your system now because they now have a store on there. This would be bad for those who don't have internet or can't afford advanced technology so companies still cater to those people because they can still make money. But if they do down enough, then they stop like video store companies did and local businesses.

Same but only 50 cents per tape not rewound. This was in a small town in Montana which now doesn't exist. Plus the local video store here charges you a dollar for a late fee per day. Lot of their movies are DVD now I don't remember if they still have any VHS tapes. Ten years ago it was half. This is also a video store that carries rare and out of print titles so they don't think they will ever go out of business because of it. If there is a movie you want to see but can't find it on stream or on TV or buy it anywhere, they might have that movie. They have very old movies too from the early 1900's and foreign titles and anime. They even have burned DVDs for rare titles or from over seas.

Even the local video store in Montana would ban you from ever renting from her store again if you never ever returned the movies. She would put your name on the Do Not Rent list and I saw one of my former school mates on there and was shocked she would steal from her. I even recognized some of the other names too. This was a small town and she had that list up on the counter where anyone could see when in fact it was for her employers so they know to not rent to them and she had a computer too but yet had to do it on paper and tape it to the wall. If she didn't want anyone to see it, she would have put it in a spot where customers couldn't see it just from their normal standing position and it would have been out of their eye sight where you would have to peek over the counter to see it and stuff or strain your neck to read it. But no it was right there in the open where we stand and check the movies or games out and it's hard to not see it without even trying. Totally intentional as if she wanted to shame those people and let everyone else know what thieves they are and how you should be careful around them which was why I was shocked who I saw on there.

Here are my VHS machines, 10 in total.

One of them no longer works, but two of them are unused, sealed in their original boxes. Wonder if those two could become collectors' items?

Wish there was a store like that round here! For rare titles, I tend to trawl through YouTube or look on Amazon, but quite a lot of stuff is unobtainable. There's a film fair held every couple of months in Camden Town, London, and a few years ago all sorts of cheap bootleg versions of interesting and otherwise unobtainable items were available, but then the trading standards people found out and cracked down on it. Last went there about five years ago, the stuff on offer was very restricted, very 'official' and very expensive.

The city I used to live (not in the UK) still has video stores like that, with super-obscure and old titles. I agree they probably won't ever go out of business; the local customer base were exactly the kind of market that will never not want those kinds of movies; I used them myself along with regular places like Blockbusters.

Between those unique "boutique" stores and mainstream stores, I was well covered for all my rental needs. Where I live now though, I don't know of anything like that. There must be somewhere but I haven't heard of it, and it's probably three long Tube rides away.

Yeah the video store about seven miles from me has movie props and XXX movies and it's in a small room with a curtain with a sign saying "no minors, only adults can enter." They also sell candy at the counter and they also rent out DVD seasons but not all at once because they are rented out individually unless all the episode seasons are on one disc. I rented My Little Pony Tales I used to watch on The Disney Channel when I was a kid and it was two discs they rented out at once and it was all the episodes on both discs. Last time I was there, they were selling a bunch of VHS tapes and new release movies and very old titles.

Here is their website:

http://moviemadnessvideo.com/

According to google I only live 5.7 miles from there but close enough to what I said. But that depends on the route I take.